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- Comment on Have you done US district court jury duty? What CAN I bring with me to the courthouse? 2 weeks ago:
I presume it’s because people in stem are more likely to have strong opinions about statistics, validity of tests or science, that sort of thing. Or, they’ll sound more competent when discussing with other jurors.
I also think both sides wanted to appeal to emotions, and have their expert witnesses be the technical authorities.
- Comment on Have you done US district court jury duty? What CAN I bring with me to the courthouse? 2 weeks ago:
I recently went to jury selection, was excused twice. Probably because I raised my hand when they asked “has anyone been a victim of reckless driving” and the case was about a DUI and reckless driving. The other involved DNA evidence and they struck all of the people who worked in STEM.
Anyway, the security did NOT let me bring in my fountain pen, asked me if it was a pen gun lol… Ball point and pencils were fine. I think crochet needles won’t be allowed… Vapes and zyns were allowed. They didn’t seem to care about food or liquids at the courthouse I went to.
You’ll be spending most of your time in the waiting rooms, unless you’re picked for a trial.
Drinks and food were up to the judge, but the 2 justices I reported to basically said “if you have drinks, make sure they’re covered, otherwise be careful and don’t spill”. Boiled down to “don’t make a mess”.
They told us to turn phones off, but a lot of folks did not.
Books and sudoku should be fine. Just try to bring an empty bottle you’re okay with tossing if needed. There will likely be vending machines inside too.
- Comment on [USA] Is "there are ICE agents roaming the streets" a good reason/excuse to avoid going outside? Or is it just a part of reality that you have to learn to accept? 2 weeks ago:
A common “self soothing” technique (depression, anger, negative feelings) is to take a short walk outside.
A new environment / context can make it much easier to get out of a negative thought loop or spiral.
- Comment on ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ 5 weeks ago:
freedomadvocate
So that was a lie
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 month ago:
Log2(8.2billion) is about 33. That means if each word only had 1 synonym, you only need to change 33 words to uniquely identify who was responsible.
21 words need to change if each has 3 options. 17 words for 4 options.
- Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI 1 month ago:
Just interlace after the ai generation to prevent detection lol
- Comment on production line 2 months ago:
I thought it was pies, not bread
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 months ago:
All they have to do is send a few crews with log dipoles or yagis. Take a few operators down and charge them with terrorism or something and a critical mass will stop using it.
We have the tech for drones sweeping everything everywhere with sensors. Cameras, radios, microphones, IR…
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 2 months ago:
“Stop using ML for everything”
I see no other way to drink from the firehose. We’re talking nationstate level resources.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 2 months ago:
Why do you think the telecoms got away with stalling upgrades and fiber roll outs for so long?
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 2 months ago:
Doesn’t jpg break this? And can’t it be detected? I imagine AI could be used to some extent.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 2 months ago:
Dead drop USBs for file sharing?
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 2 months ago:
Good news, we closed that pesky loophole by banning encryption without backdoors.
If they can’t decode it, you better be ready to explain exactly what those bytes were!
- Comment on Mississippi Age Verification Law 2 months ago:
We’ve done it before.
Back when reddit was young, before social media apps captured the content. It just doesn’t matter now. Critical mass of the internet is corporations.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 2 months ago:
CE is neat because most companies will treat you as if you had a CS or EE degree. Can always pivot to HW or FPGA
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 2 months ago:
If there’s no hope for getting a job, it doesn’t mean they’re not passionate.
- Comment on Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates 2 months ago:
How
- Comment on As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act 2 months ago:
Always has been
Residents in big cities have been experiencing it for decades at this point.
ConEd saying “We’re preparing for the heat wave in your area this week. Please, limit your energy usage to prevent power outages.”
Yeah, and times square is still lit up full brightness. The the skyscraper offices aren’t doing their part. Most of them, you can feel the cold on the street from their lobbies.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 2 months ago:
They listed the majority first. That’s all they did here.
- Comment on Could one legally get a hold of those bank bill dye security dye packs, dye your own legally obtained cash with it, and spend it places? Just to make people suspect you're secretly a bank robber. 3 months ago:
Not true- ATMs definitely track SN, that’s how they catch theives. I’m almost certain banks would record SN too, at least nowadays. It would be stupid simple.
- Comment on Are there any AI services that don't work on stolen data? 3 months ago:
Okay, so conversion or unjust enrichment instead of literal theft.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 3 months ago:
Time to cancel some cards
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 3 months ago:
There’s always gps spoofing via debug mode too
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 3 months ago:
Pin pitch means how tiny the physical pins in the connector can be spaced apart.
IR drop losses happen because a wire has resistance, it isn’t a perfect conductor. 28AWG wire has about 0.22ohm/m. Given a 2 meter cable, you might expect to see 0.44ohm one-way. Current is also travelling back, so the circuit “sees” another 0.44ohm. That’s a total of 0.88ohm
A wire will cause voltage drop following ohm’s law. V=I/*R. So for 1A of current, you will see 0.88V lost.
Say you’re trying to charge at 15W (5V 3A), your phone is only going to ‘see’ 2.36 volts, and 7.9W are wasted in the cable.
For a 100W device (20V, 5A), 4.4V are lost, also meaning 22W are wasted.
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 3 months ago:
The concentration of them is rising exponentially, that’s the part that terrifies me.
It’s possible we just haven’t crossed a threshold yet.
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 3 months ago:
And formula fed
- Comment on Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved 4 months ago:
So, middle school
- Comment on AI Training Slop 5 months ago:
How much electricity was wasted for you to post, and us to receive, your human slop
- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 5 months ago:
Microwave point-to-point radios are fastest because they travel through air, but more importantly, are typically the shortest path possible by line-of-sight.
Being 66.7% of speed of light doesn’t matter terribly when you consider that the cable path is shorter by more than 66.7% of path taken by satelite link.
There’s also the idea of
- Comment on Can I replace honey with maple syrup? 5 months ago:
Wait really? Butterworth is more like honey than maple syrup?
I guess butterworth is just flavored HFCS.